Opening Vadere in the IDE

If you only want to use the graphical user interface without looking into the code, you can skip this video and execute the vadere-gui.jar contained in the zip file (see https://www.vadere.org/download/)

In this tutorial, we explain how to open Vadere in an integrated development environment such as IntelliJ IDEA.

⚠️ Corrections:

  • Please use Java 17.0.11 or above (OpenJDK recommended)

Getting started with Vadere

Part 1: How to create a scenario

This video explains how to define a scenario file within a new Vadere project.

Part 2: How to design a topography

This tutorial guides you through the topography creator. After watching this, you will be able to define your own topography/geometry consisting of sources, targets, and obstacles. Note that the origin of the coordinate system is located in the lower left corner and the grid is measured in meters.

Part 3: Running your first simulation

This tutorial shows which steps are necessary when running a simulation in Vadere: First, we define the sources and targets in a given topography. Second, we set a locomotion model, which determines the movement of agents. Finally, we run the simulation.

Part 4: How to define the simulation output

In this video, we show step by step how you can define data processors and simulation output. A data processor defines the information that will be extracted from the simulation and can then be saved as a .txt or .csv file.

Part 5: Analyzing a simulation run with Vadere’s post visualization

Once you have generated a simulation output, you can analyze it in the tab for post visualization.
A few more features of Vadere’s post visualization tool.